2017
From June 19th to June 23rd
MIGRATION
ECONOMICS
Migration challenges
in global labor markets
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MIGRATION ECONOMICS
Migration challenges in global labor markets
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From June 19 to June 23 2017
OVERVIEW
Immigration is a major aspect of globalization and is increasingly at the center of the public and policy debate. This
course aims to present the cutting-edge research on the economics of migration and to provide the tools to contribute
to this field. The course is divided in 3 parts:
- The first part (taught by Hillel Rapoport) studies the relationship between globalization and development. It
analyzes how migration affects other dimensions of globalization, such as trade, FDI, technology diffusion and
the transmission of socio-cultural norms.
- The second part (taught by Hippolyte d’Albis) focuses on the demographic effect of immigration and the
consequences of migration on capital accumulation and growth.
- The third part (taught by Grégory Verdugo and Biagio Speciale) studies the impact of immigration on natives’
labor market outcomes. It also investigates the barriers to immigrants’ assimilation. With regard to the
methodology, the course combines the analysis of the main theoretical models in the migration literature with
the most recent and rigorous empirical evidence.
WORKSHOP
Participants will have the opportunity to submit a paper to be presented within this programme. The deadline for
paper submission is Wednesday, 31 May 2017. Selected papers will be presented (in 30 minutes) in front of
participants and faculty in daily one-hour slots reserved for such presentations.
PROFESSORS
Hippolyte d’Albis is a Professor at the Paris School of Economics and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,
associate editor of the Journal of Demographic Economics and the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, and director of
the French team of the National Transfers Accounts network. His research, supported by the European Research
Council, aims at understanding the links between economic variables and the economy. Recently, he worked on the
macroeconomic impact of non-European migration in France.
http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/d-albis-hippolyte/
Hillel Rapoport is a Professor at the Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He held visiting
positions at Stanford University (in 2001-03) and Harvard University (in 2009-11). Since 2008 he is the scientific
coordinator of the “migration and development” conferences jointly organized by the French Development Agency
and the World Bank. His research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration. His other research
interests include economic history, political economy, and the economics of immigration and diversity.
http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/rapoport-hillel/
Biagio Speciale holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Université libre de Bruxelles. He is associate professor (maître de
conferences) at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and associate member at Paris School of Economics. His main
research interests are in the economics of migration and labor economics in contexts of political instability. He has
published in journals such as Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of
Comparative Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, among others.
http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/speciale-biagio/
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Gregory Verdugo received his Ph.D. from Toulouse School of Economics in June 2009. He is associate professor (maître
de conferences) at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne since September 2015. Previously, he was economist at the
Banque de France. His main research interests include labor economics and urban economics. His current work focuses
on immigration and discrimination in France. His papers have been published in European Economic Review, Journal of
Economic Geography, Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Urban Studies.
https://sites.google.com/site/gregoryverdugo/
Programme Supervisor: Biagio Speciale
PREREQUISITES
Graduates in economics with strong theoretical and empirical skills
SCHEDULE
Monday June, 19th
8.30 am - 9 am Welcome Coffee
9 am - 10.30 am Hippolyte d’Albis, Migration, Ageing and Growth
10.30 am - 10.45 am Coffee Break
10.45 am - 12.15 pm Hippolyte d’Albis, Migration, Ageing and Growth
12.15 pm - 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm - 2.30 pm Workshop
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Hillel Rapoport, Migration, Globalization and Development
3.30 pm - 3.45 pm Coffee Break
3.45 pm - 5.30 pm Hillel Rapoport, Migration, Globalization and Development
5.30 pm - 7 pm Thomas Piketty, Inequality and Macroeconomics - Plenary Lecture
Tuesday June, 20th
9 am - 10.30 am Hippolyte d’Albis, Migration, Ageing and Growth
10.30 am - 10.45 am Coffee Break
10.45 am - 12.45 pm Hippolyte d’Albis, Migration, Ageing and Growth
12.45 pm - 1.45 pm Lunch
1.45 pm - 2.45 pm Workshop
2.45 pm - 4.15 pm Hillel Rapoport, Migration, Globalization and Development
4.15 pm - 4.30 pm Coffee Break
4.30 pm - 6.45 pm Hillel Rapoport, Migration, Globalization and Development
Wednesday June, 21st
9 am - 10.30 am Gregory Verdugo, Immigrants in their Host Society
10.30 am - 11 am Coffee Break
11 am - 12 pm Gregory Verdugo, Immigrants in their Host Society
12 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch
1.15 pm - 2.15 pm Workshop
2.15 pm - 3.15 pm Hillel Rapoport, Migration, Globalization and Development
3.15 pm - 3.45 pm Coffee Break
3.45 pm - 6.15 pm Hillel Rapoport, Migration, Globalization and Development
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Thursday June, 22nd
9 am - 11 am Hippolyte d’Albis, Migration, Ageing and Growth
11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break
11.15 am - 12.45 pm Hippolyte d’Albis, Migration, Ageing and Growth
12.45 pm - 1.45 pm Lunch
1.45 pm - 2.45 pm Workshop
2.45 pm - 3.45 pm Biagio Speciale, Immigrants in their Host Society
3.45 pm - 4 pm Coffee Break
4 pm - 5.30 pm Biagio Speciale, Immigrants in their Host Society
Friday June, 23rd
9 am - 10.30 am Gregory Verdugo, Immigrants in their Host Society
10.30 am - 11 am Coffee Break
11 am - 12 pm Gregory Verdugo, Immigrants in their Host Society
12 pm - 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm - 2.30 pm Workshop
2.30 pm - 4 pm Biagio Speciale, Immigrants in their Host Society
4 pm - 4.15 pm Coffee Break
4.15 pm - 5.15 pm Biagio Speciale, Immigrants in their Host Society
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A SUMMER
ON THE JOURDAN CAMPUS…
The 2017 Summer School will take place in the new PSE building, situated on the Jourdan campus in the 14th
arrondissement of Paris, which has just been officially inaugurated by President François Hollande. Designed by the
architectural company TVAA and jointly funded by the Région Île-de-France, the central state and the city of Paris, the
12 500 m² building houses researchers, students, and administrative teams of the Paris School of Economics and the
Ecole normale supérieure.
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Migration, Globalization
and Development
Hillel Rapoport
This course takes place on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
OBJECTIVES
International migration is a key aspect of globalization. While migrants represent about 3 percent of the world
population, a relatively stable figure, immigrants now represent nearly 10 percent of the population of OECD countries,
a twofold increase in just a couple of decades. Another interesting pattern of international migration is that it is
increasingly of the brain drain type. These migration flows affect other dimensions of globalization such as trade, FDI
and technology diffusion. They also affect institutions and development in low-income countries in a number of ways,
including through diffusion of host-country institutions and socio-cultural norms (i.e., “social remittances”). These
different dimensions of the migration, globalization and development relationship will be studied combining applied
theory and empirical research from cross-country comparisons as well as from selected country case-studies.
COURSE STRUCTURE
1. Introduction: Migration and globalization: what’s in it for developing countries?
2. Migration and the other dimensions of globalization
a. Migration and trade
i. Cross-country comparisons
ii. Evidence from a natural experiment: the Vietnamese boat people
b. Migration, FDI and other financial flows
i. Migration and cross-border financial flows
ii. Migration, FDI and the margins of trade
c. Migration and technology diffusion
i. Diasporas and the diffusion of innovation
ii. Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of nations
3. Migration, institutions and culture
a. The democratic dividend from emigration
i. Emigration and democracy: cross-country perspectives
ii. Political remittances: evidence from selected country case-studies
b. Migration and fertility
i. Fargues' conjecture: migration and fertility in Middle Eastern countries
ii. The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition: evidence from internal migration in 19th
century France
c. Migration and cultural convergence
i. Theory: extending the Bisin-Verdier framework for migration
ii. Empirics: migration and the gravity of culture
REFERENCES
Introduction
- Docquier, Frédéric, and Hillel Rapoport (2012). "Globalization, brain drain, and development." Journal of
Economic Literature 681-730.
- Livi-Bacci, M. (2012) “A Short History of Migration”, Wiley.
- Rapoport, Hillel (2016) “Migration and Globalization: what’s in it for Developing Countries?”, International
Journal of Manpower, forthcoming.
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- Agrawal, A., Cockburn, I., McHale, J., (2006). “Gone but not forgotten: knowledge flows, labor mobility, and
enduring social relationships”. Journal of Economic Geography 6, 571–591.
- Agrawal, Ajay, et al. (2011) "Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country
innovation". Journal of Urban Economics 69.1: 43-55.
- Aubry, Amandine, Hillel Rapoport and Ariell Reshef (2016), “Migration, FDI and the Margins of Trade”.
Mimeo., Paris School of Economics.
- Bahar, D., R. Hausmann, and C.A. Hidalgo. (2014). "Neighbors and the Evolution of the Comparative
Advantage of Nations: Evidence of International Knowledge Diffusion?". Journal of International Economics 92,
no. 1: 111-123.
- Bahar, D. and H. Rapoport (forthcoming). “Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of
nations”. Economic Journal, forthcoming.
- Coeurdacier, Nicolas and Helene Rey (2013). ”Home Bias in Open Economy Financial Macroeconomics,”.
Journal of Economic Literature, 51(1), 63-115.
- Combes, Pierre-Philippe, Miren Lafourcade, and Thierry Mayer (2005) "The trade-creating effects of business
and social networks: evidence from France". Journal of International Economics 66.1: 1-29.
- Felbermayr, G. J. and F. Toubal (2012) “Revisiting the Trade-Migration Nexus: Evidence from New OECD
Data”. World Development 40(5), pp. 928–937.
- Foley, C. Fritz, and William R. Kerr (2011). “Ethnic innovation and US multinational firm activity”. No. w17336.
National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Gould, David M. (1994) "Immigrant links to the home country: empirical implications for US bilateral trade
flows".The Review of Economics and Statistics: 302-316.
- Head, Keith, and John Ries (1998). "Immigration and trade creation: econometric evidence from Canada".
Canadian journal of economics: 47-62.
- Helpman, E., M. J. Melitz, and S. R. Yeaple (2004). “Export versus FDI with heterogeneous firms”. American
Economic Review 94 (1), 300–316.
- Helpman, E., M. Melitz, and Y. Rubinstein (2008). “Estimating trade flows: Trading partners and trading
volumes”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (2), 441–487.
- Iranzo, Susana, and Giovanni Peri (2009)."Migration and trade: Theory with an application to the Eastern–
Western European integration." . Journal of International Economics 79.1: 1-19.
- Jaffe, A.B., Trajtenberg, M., Henderson, R., (1993).”Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as
Evidenced by Patent Citations”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, 577–598.
- Javorcik, Beata S., et al. (2011) "Migrant networks and foreign direct investment". Journal of Development
Economics 94.2: 231-241.
- Kerr, William R. (2008) "Ethnic scientific communities and international technology diffusion". The Review of
Economics and Statistics 90.3: 518-537.
- Kugler, Maurice, and Hillel Rapoport (2007) "International labor and capital flows: Complements or
substitutes?”.Economics Letters 94.2: 155-162.
- Kugler, Maurice, Oren Levintal, and Hillel Rapoport (2013) "Migration and cross-border financial flows".
- Miguélez, E., (2014). “Inventor Diasporas and the Internalionalization of Technology”. CReAM Discussion
Paper No. 1425, University College London.
- Parsons, Christopher, and Pierre-Louis Vézina (forthcoming). “Migrant networks and trade: The Vietnamese
boat people as a natural experiment”. Economic Journal, forthcoming.
- Portes, Richard, and Helene Rey (2005) "The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows”. Journal of
International Economics 65:2, 269--296.
- Rauch, James E., and Vitor Trindade (2002) "Ethnic Chinese networks in international trade”. Review of
Economics and Statistics 84.1: 116-130.
- Singh, J., Marx, M., (2013). “Geographic Constraints on Knowledge Spillovers: Political Borders vs. Spatial
Proximity”. Management Science 59, 2056–2078.
Migration, institutions and culture
- Barsbai, Toman, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Trebesch (2016): “The impact of
emigration on the diffusion of democracy: evidence from a former Soviet Republic”, American Economic
Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming.
- Batista, A., and P. Vicente (2011). “Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting
Experiment”. World Bank Economic Review, 25(1), 77-104.
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- Beine, M., F. Docquier, and M. Schiff (2013). “International Migration, Transfer of Norms and Home Country
Fertility”, Canadian Journal of Economics.
- Bertoli, S., and F. Marchetta (2015). “Bringing It All Back Home: Return Migration and Fertility Choices”, World
Development.
- Chauvet, L., and M. Mercier (2014). “Migration and Elections in Mali”. Does Migration Promote
Democratization in Africa?, Journal of Comparative Economics.
- Clingingsmith, D., A. Khwaja, and M. Kremer (2009). “Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and
Tolerance in Islam’s Global Gathering”, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
- Daudin, G., R. Franck and H. Rapoport (2016): “The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition: evidence from
internal migration in 19th century France”, IZA Discussion Paper.
- Docquier, F., E. Lodigiani, H. Rapoport, and M. Schiff (2016). “Emigration and Democracy”, Journal of
Development Economics.
- Spilimbergo, A. (2009): “Foreign students and democracy”, American Economic Review.
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Migration, Ageing
and Growth
Hippolyte d’Albis
This course takes place on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
OBJECTIVES
The objective of this theme is to study the impacts of migration for host countries, and notably for developed countries
with large aging population. First, the demographic impact of a flow of immigrants will be analyzed; then, the
consequences on macroeconomic variables will be discussed. In particular, the effect of migration on capital
accumulation and growth will be studied using neo-classical and endogenous growth models. Predictions of theoretical
models will be confronted with recent empirical evidence of the economic impact of migration in Europe and the US.
COURSE STRUCTURE
1. Introduction. Migration and aging: is replacement migration a panacea?
2. Introducing migration in macroeconomic models
a. Migration: “capital dilution” vs. “scale effects”
Migration implies an increase in population, which in most neoclassical models generates a “capital
dilution” effect whereas inducing a “scale effect” in endogenous growth models. These fundamental
effects will be first discussed in order to assess their robustness.
b. Complementarities between native and immigrants
A key issue in the economics of migration is to determine whether immigrants are complement or
substitute to native. This will be discussed theoretically and empirically. An application to the analysis
of skill biased technological progress will be proposed.
c.
Short vs. long run, and fixed factors
Most studies on migration distinguish short run (i.e. when other factors are fixed) from long run
effects. This distinction will be studied in inter-temporal models and discussed with VAR estimations
for various OECD countries.
3. Recent developments of the macroeconomics of migration
a. Migration and the Phillips curve
A New-Keynesian framework will be used to analyze the consequences of immigration for the joint
behavior of unemployment and inflation. An application to Spain will be used to show how the Phillips
curve can be affected by migration.
b. Migration, public deficits and debt
Immigrants may affect public finances and may choose their localization according to the generosity of
public subsidies. These interactions will be studied in a conceptual framework where a local
government can choose its optimal tax system.
c.
Migration and housing
Another topical issue related to migration is housing. The impact of migration flows on the demand
and supply for housing will be studied in a dynamic model. US evidence will be then discussed.
4. Conclusion. Main messages and policy implications
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REFERENCES
- A. H. Akbaria, Y. Aydedea (2012), “Effects of immigration on house prices in Canada”. Applied Economics 44,
1645-1658.
- M. Beine, P. Bourgeon and J.-C. Bricongne (2013), “Business Cycles and International Migration among OECD
Countries”, CESifo Working Paper no. 4379.
- S. Bentolila, J. Dolado, J. Jimeno (2008), “Does immigration affect the Phillips curve? Some evidence for
Spain”, European Economic Review 52, 1398–1423.
- S. Bertoli, H. Brücker and J. Fernández-Huertas Moraga (2013), “The European Crisis and Migration to
Germany: Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows”. IZA Discussion Paper No. 7170.
- G. J. Borjas (1999), “Immigration and welfare magnets”. Journal of Labor Economics 17, 607-637.
- E. Boubtane, D. Coulibaly and C. Rault (2013), “Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence
from OECD Countries”. Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 27(4), 399-420, 2013.
- E. Boubtane, J.C. Dumont and C. Rault (2014), “Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries”
1986-2006, IZA Discussion Papers 8681.
- D. Card (2005), “Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?” Economic Journal 115, F300-F323.
- X. Chojnicki (2004), “The Economic Impact of Immigration for the Host Countries”, Brussels Economic Review
47, 9-28.
- M. A. Clemens (2011), “Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?” Journal of Economic
Perspectives 22, 83-106.
- A. F. Constant and K.F. Zimmermann (2005), “Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A
European Perspective”, National Institute Economic Review 194, 94-105.
- A. F. Constant and K.F. Zimmermann (2005), “Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Selfemployment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 1910.
- P. Cortés and J. Tessada (2011), “Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Skilled Women”.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3, 88-123.
- H. d’Albis, E. Boubtane and D. Coulibaly (2016), “Immigration Policy and Macroeconomic Performance in
France”, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 121-122, 279-308.
- O. Damette and V. Fromentin (2013), “Migration and Labour Markets in OECD Countries: A Panel
Cointegration Approach”. Applied Economics 45, 2295-2304.
- K. Degen, A. Fischer (2009), “Immigration and Swiss house prices”. CEPR Discussion Paper 7583.
- J. Dolado, A. Goria and A. Ichino (1994), “Immigration, Human Capital and Growth in the Host Country.
Evidence from Pooled Country Data”. Journal of Population Economics 7, 193-215.
- R. M. Friedberg and J. Hunt (1995), “The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and
Growth”. Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, 23-44.
- R. M. Friedberg and J. Hunt (1995), “Immigrants and the Receiving Economies”. In C. Hirschman, P. Kasinitz
and J. DeWind (eds.), Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience, New York: Russell Sage
Foundation.
- D. Furtado and H. Hock (2010), “Low Skilled Immigration and Work-Fertility Tradeoffs among High Skilled US
Natives”. American Economic Review 100, 224-28.
- L. Gonzalez, F. Ortega (2013), “Immigration and housing booms: Evidence from Spain”. Journal of Regional
Science 53, 37-59
- D. Gross (2002), “Three Million Foreigners, Three Million Unemployed? Immigration Flows and the Labour
Market in France”. Applied Economics 34, 1969-1983.
- D. Gross (2004), “Impact of Immigrant Workers on a Regional Labour Market”. Applied Economics Letters 11,
405-408.
- J. Hunt (1992), “The Impact of the 1962 Repatriates from Algeria on the French Labor Market”. Industrial and
Labor Relations Review 45, 556-572.
- J. Hunt (2012), “The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives”. NBER Working Paper
No. 18047.
- A. Islam (2007), “Immigration Unemployment Relationship: The Evidence from Canada”. Australian Economic
Paper 46, 52-66.
- S. Jean and M. Jiménez (2011), “The Unemployment Impact of Immigration in OECD Countries”. European
Journal of Political Economy 27, 241-256.
- S. P. Kerr and W. R. Kerr (2011), “Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey”. Finnish Economic Papers 24, 132.
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- T. Kiguchi and A. Mountford (2013), “The Macroeconomics of Immigration”. MPRA Paper No. 45517.
- L. Kónya (2000), “Bivariate Causality between Immigration and Long-term Unemployment in Australia, 19811998”. Working Paper, Victoria University, School of Applied Economics, No. 18/00.
- B. Morley (2006), “Causality between Economic Growth and Immigration: An ARDL Bounds Testing
Approach”. Economics Letters 90, 72-76.
- F. Ortega and G. Peri (2009), “The causes and effects of international migrations: Evidence from OECD
countries 1980-2005”. NBER Working Paper 14833.
- D. Pope and G. Withers (1993), “Do Migrants Rob Jobs? Lessons of Australian History”, 1861-1991. Journal of
Economic History 53, 719-742.
- F. Sá (2015), “Immigration and house prices in the UK”. The Economic Journal 125, 1393-1424.
- A. Saiz (2007), “Immigration and housing rents in American cities”. Journal of Urban Economics 61, 345-371.
- A. Saiz, S. Wachter (2011), “Immigration and the neighborhood”. American Economic Journal: Economic
Policy 3, 169-188.
- S. Stillman, D. Maré (2008), “Housing markets and migration: Evidence from New Zealand”. Motu Working
Paper 08-06.
- United Nations (2001), “Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations”.
Population Division.
- S. Weiske (2016), “The Macroeconomic effects of postwar immigration to the US”. Memo, Goethe University
Frankfurt.
- G. Withers and D. Pope (1985), “Immigration and Unemployment”. Economic Record 61, 554-563.
- J. E. Zabel (2012), “Migration, housing market, and labor market responses to employment shocks”. Journal of
Urban Economics 72, 267-284.
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Immigrants in their Host Society
Biagio Speciale
and Gregory Verdugo
This course takes place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
OBJECTIVES
A substantial part of the public concern about immigration in developed countries is about the impact of immigrants on
the labor market outcomes of natives. However, while much work has been done, assessing how much immigrants
change the economic opportunities of natives still poses many empirical challenges. While the standard model of a
competitive labor market predicts that an increase in immigration should lower the wages of competing workers, how
to identify the groups of natives that are competing for the same jobs as immigrants remains a controversial issue.
The objectives of the course are to present the large literature on the impact of immigration on the labor market
outcomes of natives. We will present the main theoretical models and discuss the challenges of their confrontation
with the data. The second part of this theme will focus on barriers to immigrants’ assimilation. There are several factors
that negatively affect the economic integration of immigrants in host countries. In particular we will focus on the
analysis of language barriers and undocumented status. Knowledge of the host country’s language is an important
determinant of immigrants’ labor market outcomes and occupational downgrading. For this reason, the governments
of several destination countries provide language courses to newly arrived immigrants. We plan to present a brief
overview of the literature on the evaluation of these integration plans. Undocumented status – residing in the
destination country without a regular residence permit – is another important factor influencing negatively the
economic integration of immigrants by reducing the set of available employment opportunities. A part of the course
will be devoted to the review of the literature on the effects of immigrants’ legal status on labor market outcomes and
economic behavior.
COURSE STRUCTURE
1. Introduction: Challenges of Immigrants Assimilation in their Host Society
2. Immigrants and the labor market
a. The labor market impact of immigration
i. Short-run effects
ii. Long-run effects
b. How to measure the impact?
i. Spatial correlations
ii. Skill-group approaches
3. Barriers to immigrants’ assimilation
a. Language barriers
i. Language skills and labor market outcomes
ii. Language training and labor market outcomes
b. Undocumented status
i. Undocumented status and labor market outcomes
ii. Undocumented status and propensity to commit crime
iii. Undocumented status and consumption behavior
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REFERENCES
Immigrants and the Labor Market
- Acemoglu, Daron and David. Autor (2011), “Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and
Earnings,” in “Handbook of Labor Economics,” Vol. 4.
- Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Sara de la Rica (2011), “Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by
gender and nativity in Spain,” Labour Economics, 18 (5), 697 – 707.
- Aydemir, Abdurrahman and George J. Borjas (2007), “Cross-Country Variation in the Impact of International
Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 5 (4), 663–
708.
- Aydemir, Abdurrahman and George J. Borjas (2011), “Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of
Immigration,” Journal of Labor Economics, 29 (1), 69–112.
- Bauer, Thomas, Regina Flake, and Mathias Sinning (2013), “Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence
from Neighborhood Data,” Review of International Economics 21(2):370-385. May.
- Bonin, Holger (2005), “Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: Evidence from a Skill
Group Approach,” Working Paper 1875, IZA, December.
- Borjas, George J. (1994), “The Economics of Immigration,” Journal of Economic Literature, 32 (4), 1667–1717.
- Borjas, George J. (2003), “The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of
Immigration on the Labor Market,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (4), 1335–1374.
- Borjas, George J. (2006), “Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration,” Journal of
Human Resources, 41 (2), 221.
- Borjas, George J., Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon H. Hanson (2008), “Imperfect Substitution between
Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal,” Working Paper 13887, National Bureau of Economic Research, March.
- Borjas, George J., Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon H. Hanson (2012), “Comment: On Estimating Elasticities of
Substitution,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 10 (1), 198–223.
- Borjas, George J., Richard B. Freeman, and Lawrence F. Katz (1997), “How Much Do Immigration and Trade
Affect Labor Market Outcomes?,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, (1), 1–90.
- Bratsberg, Bernt and Oddbjørn Raaum (2012), ‘Immigration and wages: Evidence from construction’, The
Economic Journal, 122(1), 1177-1205
- Card, David (1990), “The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market,” Industrial and Labor
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- Card, David (2001), “Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Market Impacts of Higher
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HOW TO APPLY TO THE PSE SUMMER SCHOOL 2017
Presentation
Our ten one-week programmes are entirely run in English. Each includes a total of around 30 hours instruction and
consists of different thematic courses that are complementary. At the end of the programme, you will receive a
certificate. You are expected to participate in all of the courses of their one-week programme; you can follow only one
programme per week, but can apply to three consecutive ones.
Each programme is equivalent to 3 ECTS. Students interested in this transfer should contact their universities.
Here are the links to the different programmes (lectures, Professors, schedule, prerequisites etc.):
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Participant profiles and selection
The PSE Summer School is aimed at professionals, researchers, as well as graduate students in Economics and Finance
(Masters and PhD). Undergraduate students in Economics will be considered only if their profile is exceptionally strong.
To be included in your application file:
• A current Curriculum Vitae in pdf format
• A copy of your most advanced degree
• A short motivation text
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A profile picture [not used per se in the application process]
For Students: proof of status
Optional - Letter(s) of recommendation
On www.pse-application.eu candidates can apply continuously till the final deadline, which is Monday May the 15th.
You can start the process whenever you want, create and save your profile step by step, until the final submission. Each
application will be reviewed by the programme supervisor(s) within 15 days afterwards. Once accepted, you will have
then 15 days to pay the total fees and therefore validate your participation. You will then receive detailed information
about the courses, workshops, and social events, as well as suggestions for accommodation.
We advise you not to wait until the last moment. Applications will be reviewed continuously: if the maximum number
of participants is exceeded, applicants will be put on the wait list.
Fees
Fees include lunches and
coffee breaks every day,
as well as the welcome
and
the
farewell
cocktails. The fees do not
include accommodation,
transport or any other
services.
Cancellation policy - Confirmed participants who wish to cancel must do so in writing by email. When withdrawing from
the programme, participants will have their tuition fees partially refunded as follows:
- Cancellation before May 1st, 2017: 80% refund
- Cancellation before June 1st, 2017: 50% refund
- Cancellation after June 1st, 2017: no refund possible
Any questions? [email protected]
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